October 2014

My colleague Keith J Caserta has come out with a second book in his Kindle series called: Galactic Shadows. Science fiction about AI and how aliens are likely to interact with us. His web page and ordering information. Much…

It has been a considerable time since I have worked with Kanban, the lean, just in time manufacturing process. This InfoQ piece outlines what it is and a workshop that addresses how to achieve it. Even including a Kanban"…
Franz Dill| October 25, 2014 at 08:36 PM

Got a chance today to use the Kroger in-aisle checkout method at the Middletown, Ohio Kroger today. This was a concept we tested with many alternatives in the innovation center and in lab stores. Nicely done example here.…

In Future of CIO: Business strategy and execution challenges. " ... Many companies spend significant portion of time for formulating rock solid strategies, focuses on business strategy development and puts a lot of efforts to…

You can get over-the-air HDTV signals using an antenna. This antenna gets a better, stronger signal with less interference if it is direct line-of-sight and as near as possible to the broadcast towers. So, you might want an antenna…

Underscoring the importance of a great customer experience, Capital One has acquired the San Francisco-based design and user experience firm, Adaptive Path. Is this a testing of the waters by a historically innovative financial…

Social Design Futures: HEI Research and the AHRC By Armstrong, Leah, Jocelyn Bailey, Guy Julier, Lucy Kimbell University of Brighton and Victoria and Albert Museum October 2014, 84 pages The UK’s Arts and Humanities Research…

How is Watson cognitive technology being taught today in universities? Here is an example of how it is described in a curriculum at Columbia:" ... IBM Watson is ushering in a new era of computing, cognitive systems. Based on…

Experientia president Michele Visciola is one of the keynote speakers at User Friendly 2014, the annual user experience conference of UXPA China, to be held in Wuxi, China, 13 to 16 November. The theme of the 11th conference…

Many Worlds is a 1950s idea that came out of physics. A result of the math that works very well predictively at the tiny, particle level, but for the real world gives results that don't match our every day reality. &nbspA …

Manufacturing and the Internet of Things. "... Manufacturers like GM and Stanley Black and Decker are creating this platform for innovation by deploying open standards–based Internet Protocol (IP) technologies that converge…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will host the first multistakeholder Cybersecurity Partnership Meeting on November 14 in Menlo Park,…

The National Science Foundation recently featured University of Missouri computer scientist Marjorie Skubic in a Science360 radio episode. Skubic is engineering high speed networks that can remotely monitor movement and vital…

A straightforward, non-technical video of how Watson/Cognitive is designed to work, implemented in the real world. Worth a look if you are at all interested. This does not mean that considerable work will be needed to use…

Harvard Computer Science is doing a junior faculty search this year. We pretty much have been doing one every year, but it's nice to be able to make an announcement and point people to the ad.So here is the ad, telling you what…

I love data and I hate stats. Not stats in abstract — statistics are great — but the kind of stats that seem to accompany any web activity. Number of followers, number of readers, number of viewers, etc. I hate them in the way…

In ThinkwithGoogle:" ... The relationship between digital and local stores is changing—something we learned from our new Digital Impact on In-Store Shopping study, commissioned from Ipsos MediaCT and Sterling Brands. From it,…

Not unexpected. But the form of the move is unusual. Not a profitable enough business. " .... Though P&G said that the Duracell has 'attractive operating profit margins... and cash generation,' it saw its growth prospects as…

Seattle City Light has a clever project where, instead of installing solar panels on your house where they might be obscured by trees or buildings, you can buy into a solar panel installation on top of a building in a more efficient…

Excellent piece here. Have worked in the area of regulatory compliance. Here the idea is to consider the more formal roles involved to address this problem systematically over time. " ... In today’s world, it is becoming increasingly…

More examples of Cognitive, here with Google." ... Google, the search company that's investing heavily in robotics, is teaming with Oxford University researchers to work on artificial intelligence.In January, Google bought the…

Data sets are growing rapidly. Yahoo, Google, and Amazon, work with data sets that consist of billions of items. The size and scale of data, which can be overwhelming today, will only increase as the Internet of Things matures…

Jim Spohrer points to a more complete list of Watson Bluemix services. I am in the midst of exploring. Here is one example to give you an idea of the granularity of the cognitive offerings. There are a total of 8 now, but they…